The rippling impact from COVID-19 continues to add new daily challenges to the food & beverage industry, including trust issues from the consumers’ end and the disruption of global supply chains. The pandemic highlighted the failings of the current, highly inefficient traceability systems we depend on as a global society.
Blockchain technology represents a paradigm shift in the world of supply chain and is quickly showing itself to be the most effective method available to solve the aforementioned problems, as well as delivering new, unique capabilities for enterprises and consumers.
VeChain has been accumulating use cases in this area since 2019. From powering big names in the industry to helping countless farmers and suppliers streamline their management systems.
Below, we summarize Top 10 real commercial examples of public blockchain use cases in the food industry, the first of their kind, but certainly not the last.
Case 1: Walmart China takes on food safety with VeChain
The Walmart China Blockchain Traceability Platform, built on the VeChainThor Blockchain, was announced at the 2019 ‘China Products Safety Publicity Week Traceability System Construction Seminar’. Read more
Case 2: Walmart China brings together Sam’s Club and VeChain to take one step further towards food safety traceability platform
Sam’s Club China, a membership-only premium shopping chain owned by Walmart China deployed the Sam’s Club Blockchain Traceability Platform. Read more
Case 3: VeChain, DNV and Norway in a Box announced partnership
VeChain, DNV and Norway in a Box worked together to build a new service on My Story™, a trust platform built to empower customers and businesses alike. Read more
Case 4: VeChain, ASI Group and DNV, announced FoodGates on the 2nd CIIE
FoodGates is the world’s first intercontinental food solution built fully powered by a public blockchain with verified and certified information of the full lifecycle of products being tracked. Read more
Case 5: VeChain became the sole public blockchain protocol of the APAC Provenance Council
The APAC Provenance Council was established to integrate blockchain technology into food supply chain finance for Australia–China trades. The core founding members included VeChain. Read more
Case 6: VeChain enables Producers Market to trace agriculture products
Powered by VeChain, the StoryBird application allows agricultural producers, processors, packers, distributors, brands and other added-value stakeholders and access global markets. Read more
Case 7: VeChain powers Producers Market to onboard KnowSeafood
U.S. Seafood Import Platform KnowSeafood announced its implementation of Producers Market’s powerful transparency application, StoryBird. Read more
Case 8: VeChain powers the lifecycle management of Australia premium beef producer Latitude 28
A branded premium meat supplier in Western Australia named L28 joined hands with VeChain to develop a meat traceability solution. Read more
Case 9: VeChain joined the China Animal Health and Food Safety Alliance
CAFA is a government-backed organization directly under the Chinese National Agricultural Science Technology Innovation Alliance and was initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China. Read more
Case 10: VeChain enables Bright Foods to take A Monumental Step On Their Objective To Digitise Their Entire Inventory And Supply Chain
The “Cupids Farm” milk brand, produced by Bright Food, became the first of many food and beverage products to go live on the BrightCode platform. VeChain makes it possible for companies to monitor the entire lifecycle of their products and collect data in real-time with all data collected verified. Read more
